Saturday, April 25, 2009

On the road

I would like to apologise for, and explain, the erratic (or perhaps I should say more erratic than normal) updating of this blog in recent weeks. I have been on the road, literally, in the US and for much of that time, have been unable to get an Internet connection. Normal service will resume in due course, for better or for worse. I hope I'll also be able, eventually, to produce something explaining what I've been doing here.

About Me

I am a freelance journalist and columnist living in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. In the presence of Greenies I like to boast that I walk to work each day - I've paced it out and it's about 15 metres. I write about all sorts of stuff: politics, the media, music, wine, films, cycling and anything else that piques my interest - even sport, though I admit I don't have the intuitive understanding of sport that most New Zealand males absorb as if by osmosis. I'm a former musician (bass and guitar) with a lifelong love of music that led me to write my book 'A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis', published by Bateman NZ in July 2016. I've been in journalism for more than 40 years and like many journalists I know a little bit about a lot of things and probably not enough about anything. I have never won any journalism awards.